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The Ohlone tribe inhabited the area, the Tamyen (Tamien, Thamien) people are associated with the Mountain View area.
1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded on January 12, and the land that is now Mountain View was used as pasture for sheep and cattle by the Mission Indians.
1842 - Mexico grants 8,800 acre land (part of what is now part of Mountain View and Sunnyvale) to Francisco Estrada and his wife, Inez Castro.
1844 - Mexico grants 1,700 acre land grant of Rancho Posolmi, (the Moffett Field area) is granted to local Native American Lupe Ynigo.
1845 - The Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas (Ranch of the Ewe/Lamb Pasture) was a transferred land grant to Mariano Castro, after the death of his relative Francisco M. Estrada.
1852 - Stagecoach service begins, and the first stop (near Grant Road and El Camino Real) is formed for service between San Francisco and San Jose. A settlement is formed around this stop.
1854
1858 - The first public school opens on El Camino Real near present-day Calderon Street serving students from kindergarten to 8th grade.
Settlement named "Mountain View", naming is credited by local store-keeper and the first postmaster, Jacob Shumway.
Public school district opens.
1867 - Rengstorff House (residence) built in Shoreline Park. First Catholic mission of Saint Joseph built under Rev. Fr. Joseph Bixio at El Camino Real and Grant (currently the site of a BMW dealership).
1893 - Stanford University professors "investigate" the Castro Indian Mound, also known as Indian Hill, Secondino Robles (in the neighborhood that is now known as Monta Loma) to better understand local Native American customs.
20th century
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1900 - Bank of Mountain View in business.
1901 First Catholic pastor Rev. Fr. John J. Cullen assigned to Mountain View.
Mariano Castro family donates land for Saint Joseph Parish. Concrete foundations poured at current location 582 Hope Street, at the corner of Castro Street.
1924 - The local high school is renamed to Mountain View Union High School and relocated to a larger campus on Castro Street, also serving the neighboring Los Altos and Whisman communities.
1926 - Ambra Olive Oil Company of Mountain View is opened on 987 North Rengstorff Avenue. Founded by Mario Ambra (1887–1968), a native of Pachino, Italy, and his wife Rosaria (1890–1981).
1928 - Saint Joseph Catholic Church burned down by arsonist.
1940: the city became the home of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now the NASA Ames Research Center), influencing the city's development of its aerospace and electronics industries.
1948 - Construction of Saint Joseph Catholic School on Miramonte Avenue under Rev. Fr. James Doyle.
1950
Monte Vista Drive-In cinema in business.
Population: 6,563.
1954 - Mountain View Historical Association formed.
Stanford University surrenders the collected artifacts and remains from the Castro Shell Mound (the area is now known as the Monte Loma neighborhood) to the descendants, this includes 550 Ohlone Indian remains.
1994 - Santa Clara County government computer network begins operating.
1996 - The Computer Museum (now called the Computer History Museum) moves part of the unused museum collection from Boston, Massachusetts to Mountain View and it's stored in a former Moffett Field building.
1995 - The Crossings, a housing community is built over the Old Mill Shopping Mall
1997 - City website online (approximate date).
1999
The Computer Museum moves the remainder of the museum collection to Mountain View and renamed to The Computer Museum History Center.
In April, Mario Ambra resigns from City Council after being found guilty for misconduct.
2003 - Mike Kasperzak becomes mayor
2004 - Matt Pear becomes mayor
2005
Matt Neely becomes mayor
The old pump windmill is relocated to the Rengstorff House, formerly located at Mountain View Grant Road Farm.
2006
Nick Galiotto becomes mayor
The Jehning Lock Museum opens at 175 Castro Street, featuring one of the largest collections of locks and keys.
2007 - Laura Macias becomes the city's second Mexican-American woman to be mayor
2008 - Tom Means becomes mayor
2009
Margaret Abe-Koga becomes Mountain View's first female Asian-American mayor
2010
Population: 74,066.
Ronit Bryant becomes mayor
2011
Jac Siegel becomes mayor
Dan Rich becomes city manager
The Computer History Museum reopens, after a two-year, $19 million remodel.
2012
Mike Kasperzak becomes mayor
2013
John Inks becomes mayor
Google leases the former Mayfield Mall location (corner of Central Expressway and San Antonio Road)
2014
Chris Clark becomes mayor.
2015
John McAlister becomes mayor.
2016
Patricia "Pat" Showalter becomes mayor.
Rent control approved.
November 13: Mountain View High School received national attention after placing History teacher Frank Navarro on administrative leave for allegedly drawing historical comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler.
Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 737, OL5812502M
American Association for State and Local History (2002). Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). ISBN0759100020.
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